Li Ming took his belongings and left home, walked to the gate of the community, found his car in the parking space on the left, opened the door, and sat in the driver's seat. But after starting the car, Li Ming hesitated again.
I'm used to it. I don't want to interact too much with these friends whom I know but not too well. Maybe it's because of my introverted personality, but I don't know how to refuse. Forget it, I'll go and take a look.
After a moment of hesitation, Li Ming started the car and drove away from the gate of the community, driving straight north from the street at the gate of the community. After several turns, he arrived at the door of a restaurant called "Mars BBQ Restaurant."
The neon sign kept flashing, and there were still many parking spaces at the door. After parking the car, Li Ming walked into the store. This barbecue restaurant had two floors, and the hall on the first floor was almost full. Li Ming went straight to the second floor.
As soon as he came upstairs, Li Ming's eyes naturally looked towards a seat by the window. A woman in her twenties was sitting there alone, holding a wine glass in her hand, with loose long hair, and wearing a black leather jacket and leather pants, looking fashionable and natural.
It was Meng Lianyi. Usually, company gatherings or dinners between colleagues would choose this restaurant, and the location was always that one. Li Ming did not like such noisy occasions. In the past, Li Ming would choose to find excuses to avoid most of the gatherings. When he really could not refuse, he would just bite the bullet and join in perfunctorily. It was not that Li Ming was aloof or unsociable, he was just used to being alone and used to quietness.
Coming to the opposite side of Meng Lianyi, Li Ming sat down quietly and glanced at the table. It was filled with various grilled skewers and barbecues, and five or six empty wine bottles were placed in a corner.
"Come, I'll fill your glass first." Meng Lianyi stood up shakily, groped around the table with her arm, picked up a bottle of wine, and poured it directly into the glass in front of Li Ming's table. The wine flowed out from the bottle, and under her shaking arm, it poured onto the table and then back into the glass.
To Li Ming, it seemed as if the action had slowed down ten times. Li Ming felt as if he had waited for more than ten minutes, but it was only a few seconds, as if Li Ming and Meng Lianyi were not from the same world at all.
Li Ming did not stop the other party. He watched the bottle of wine slowly fill the glass, and a lot of wine spilled on the table.
Li Ming gently pushed the glass aside and said, "I'm not here to drink with you."
Meng Lianyi suddenly placed the bottle heavily on the table, looked at Li Ming with distracted eyes, and suddenly pointed at Li Ming and said loudly: "Then what are you doing here?!"
"Where's your cell phone? Let me help you contact your boyfriend to pick you up." Li Ming said as he stood up, glanced at the other person's table, and picked up a cell phone with a red shell.
Meng Lianyi was a little slow to react. She didn't stop him. She stood up unsteadily but sat down again. She continued to point at Li Ming and said angrily, "I asked you to come here... to drink, not to be a good person. I've already broken up with him, so don't make trouble for me."
Li Ming ignored the other party and pressed the button lightly. The screen of his mobile phone lit up. The background of the screen was an artistic photo of the other party, but a password was required to unlock it.
Li Ming glanced at the other party and wanted to ask for the unlocking password, but before he could open his mouth, Meng Lianyi suddenly laughed and said, "It can't be unlocked. My phone has a password. It's useless even if you take it, hehe..."
Having said this, Meng Lianyi took a deep sip from the wine glass, then picked up the bottle and continued to fill her own glass.
Unable to unlock the phone, Li Ming was ready to return the phone to the other party. However, just as Li Ming was about to hand over the phone, his mind suddenly clicked, as if a door opened in his mind. At this moment, in Li Ming's eyes, the phone was no longer a phone, but just some electronic components and the data inside.
Li Ming retracted his outstretched hand, and the other party's mobile phone reappeared in front of him. The thumb of his right hand just lightly tapped the screen. The phone screen suddenly flashed, a burst of garbled characters flashed by, and the phone automatically unlocked. At the same time, a picture appeared on the screen. It was a swimsuit photo of Meng Lianyi.
This is not the background picture of the mobile phone, it is just a photo in the other party's mobile phone album. How come it suddenly appeared?
The green swimsuit, the white skin, and the beach behind, the people are beautiful, and the scenery behind is also beautiful.
Li Ming's mind turned slightly, and the photo album on the mobile phone screen automatically exited. Chat messages, call records, and other information from a certain chat software began to appear on the screen.
At this time, Li Ming had already understood that whatever content he wanted in his mind, the relevant content stored in the mobile phone would be displayed quickly. His hand was like a data cable connecting his brain to the mobile phone. Any command from the brain would automatically display the data on the mobile phone. He just needed to hold the mobile phone without manual operation.
Is this the ability of a third-order civilized life? Then why is the first photo on the phone a photo of the other person in a swimsuit? Damn it?! This inadvertently exposed my true thoughts! How could I be so vulgar?!
What is displayed on the mobile phone screen at the moment is the conversation information between the other party and her boyfriend on a certain chat software. This information seems to be a lot, but it is just data. After a flash, Li Ming has completely understood the reason.
Immediately afterwards, the phone screen flashed again, and a new message popped up. This message also came from the chat software, a group chat named "Astronomy Enthusiasts Exchange Group". An extremely important message in it was that on the night of October 13, two meteorites fell into T City, one in the mountains in the southern suburbs of T City, and the other in the factory area in the north of T City.
This information immediately caught Li Ming's attention. The night of October 13 was the time when the Radiant meteor shower appeared. The location where Li Ming was watching was in the mountains in the southern suburbs of T City. That was also where the nebula fragment Harris fell. Li Ming had already obtained this fragment, so could the other one that fell in the factory area in the north of T City also be a nebula fragment?
If so, then there is a high possibility that the power of the nebula exists. Only with the power of the nebula can one continue to advance.
Yhis information is extremely important. Li Ming only took a few seconds to complete the above operations. After finishing these, Li Ming locked the phone again and put it back on Meng Lianyi's desk.
"Don't you want to know why I broke up with him?" Meng Lianyi raised her head slightly, half-opened her eyes, and looked at Li Ming lifelessly.
"Your boyfriend originally promised to go watch the Radiant meteor shower with you on the night of October 13th, but he didn't go. You shouldn't break up over such a small matter. Your boyfriend runs such a big business and he's busy with work, so you should understand him." Li Ming said casually.
"Busy ?! Those are all excuses?! I saw with my own eyes that he was having a life of debauchery with a bunch of bad friends. How can you call him busy? He just doesn't care about me!" When Meng Lianyi mentioned this, she picked up the wine glass again and drank it down.
Li Ming smiled faintly and said, "It's just a work social event... Besides, he used to pick you up and drop you off at work, and he often gave you flowers, you..."
"Wait, wait, how do you know that I broke up with him because of watching the meteor shower?" Meng Lianyi seemed to suddenly remember something.
"I..." Li Ming paused, his expression changed slightly, but he quickly continued, "I guessed."
Meng Lianyi stared at Li Ming for a while, nodded repeatedly, pointed at Li Ming and said, "You really guessed it right. Let me tell you, Li Ming, you... are just a little ugly, but your figure is not bad. If you were a little prettier, I would be willing to be your girlfriend. At least we have a common hobby."
He must have been drunk to speak so bluntly. Li Ming did not care. In terms of appearance, Li Ming in the past did not have much confidence, and he was very self-aware of it. But now, Li Ming looked at these ordinary people just like humans look at other animals on the earth, stupid, ignorant and a bit pitiful!
"There's something I'm not afraid to tell you. The manager fired you this time, not because you were late. She just couldn't stand you. Look at you, you have average ability, you're not sociable, and you look a little mean. She looks down on you from the bottom of her heart. This... This is not what I said. The manager said it a long time ago, and other female colleagues in the company have said the same thing." Meng Lianyi drank sip by sip, speaking with her head down.
"Also, I really treat you as a friend. I am different from those girls. I feel that although you have many shortcomings, you are not completely useless. As for astronomy, at least we are the only two in the entire company who can talk to each other, and..." Meng Lianyi kept talking with her head down. Suddenly, when she looked up, the seat opposite her was empty and Li Ming's figure had completely disappeared.
"Where are the people? Where did they go?!" Meng Lianyi was confused. Everything looked blurry in her hazy eyes. She waved her hand to pick up the mobile phone on the table, but before she could pick up the phone, it was scratched by her arm and fell to the ground.
At this time, Li Ming had already walked out of the store and returned to his car. He took out his mobile phone and tapped the screen lightly with his thumb. A series of information pictures and texts flashed quickly. Various software on the screen opened automatically, quickly presented certain content, and then closed instantly. Then other software opened and displayed various pictures and text information.
The whole process is that various pop-up windows switch back and forth on the screen, and more than a dozen pictures and texts flash by in one second.
But as long as there is information about the meteorite falling in T city, it will stay for one extra second. This information also comes from multiple channels, including local news, online posts, online videos, etc. Information from various channels all point to the key information of the meteorite falling in T city.
After more than ten seconds, the screen stopped flashing and a picture remained still on the screen of the phone.